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That's because it's not communism.
It's fascism:
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
oil tops 115
total msm disaster: oil rise of 30 bucks in 3 months goes nearly uncommented
Just sayin'
Will now buy cake.
One important political analysis note. Who do you want answering that 3:00 am call? Think about it. This "voters are bitter" controversy proves who has absolutely NO JUDGMENT whatsoever. Why does it prove the Clinton campaign has no judgment, you might ask? Well, think about it. They are disparate at this point to find an exploitable issue to push Hillary into a huge double digit win to make Obama look unelectable. What did HIllary and the Republicans try to hit Obama with? They used their "judgment" and decided the whole "Obama is an elitist" meme would work. Now, do you REALLY want people with that kind of idiot judgment making life or death decisions? I don't.
This whole mistake would never have happened if the Clinton's and Republicans would have had time to put their judgment about elitist through the whole focus group wringer, and they would have known the issue would blow right back on their asses. Unfortunately, for them, the Clinton and McCain campaigns didn't have time to rely on the "common man's" judgment and had to rely on their ELITIST JUDGMENT and look where it got them. So sad for them, really, for the truth to come out. Hillary and McCain campaigns don't understand common people. How can we expect them to represent our best interests? Answer: We can't. VOTE OBAMA!
It really doesn't take much studying of economic history, particularly in our own country, to recognize that the times when we all do better are the times when the country as a whole does better.
The disparity of wealth (as in the robber baron age) are the times when our country has struggled the most.
The venal greed of the Republicans (the ever increasing greed) in my lifetime is enough to make anyone with an ounce of common sense worried about our collective future.
For the greed heads and the "I gots mines" (a certain dip shit comes 2 mind) crowd, this has never been an issue... and they don't have the foresight to see that the world they are leaving to their descendants is going to be very much less kind due in large part to their selfish actions in the present.
Expect nothing more than boom and bust, with an overall stagnation of levels of standards of living (as has happened in post-War period, excluding the industrialised countries of the West and Japan) and the system sustaining itself through astronomical sums invented in their heads and traded on the stock markets, enriching themselves greedily while their workers overseas struggle to survive, and their employees here seeing their standard of living deteriorating.
So stop complaining about the system which you and the parties you campaign for serve, that of capitalism, as brutal and harsh and nonsensical as it always has been or will be.
When will people learn to think for themselves, to analyze what's happening to them, to resist the bread and circuses that are nothing but a coverup of the fascism that has taken over this country?
I am a Marxist and am so serene during all this frantic analysis and criticism of the current financial crisis.
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when it crashes... it won't matter if you're Marxist, communist, capitalist...
you'll be in the same boat, and I doubt you'll feel 'serene'.
Todays gamblers are the hedge funds. They placed the wrong bets at the wrong time, but their losses shouldn't have to be shouldered by the tax payer.
Hedge funds peddle crystal meth. Aggressive investors pour money into hedge funds generating artificially high returns by betting with borrowed money. To maximize yields, hedge funds also gravitate to the riskiest mortgages, like subprime, and to the riskiest bonds, which absorb losses on complex pools of lower-quality mortgages known as collateralized debt obligations or CDOs. The profits from selling bonds based on very risky underlying securities override bankers’ traditional risk aversion. By 2006, high-risk lending becomes the norm in the home-mortgage industry.
Bottom line....if you want to play you have to pay, but don't look to the common man to clean up after the mess you left behind. We have a hard enough time just trying to make ends meet as it is.
The difference is that our entire political and social structure has been so warped that I don't know how we will ever find the ability to band together and work it out.
Didn't Volker say that financial services account for something like 40 percent of the economy now? These guys are the moneychangers in the temple, skimming their take and speculating on who will be the last one out of the pool.
Our economic powerhouse is really a Potemkin village, folks.